Leviticus is the party book of the Old Testament. For my family, meal preparation is often accompanied by music. Gratitude is given prior to eating, and a time of spiritual reading and prayer follows.

The book of Leviticus provides important lessons for the Jewish people, especially when it comes to protecting the lives of others, Jonathan Greenberg, a Reform rabbi from Chicago, ...

Leviticus gets a bad rap. It lacks the great narratives of the first two books and is full of rules and regulations. Many of these instructions (Lev 1-10) deal with ...

LeviticusThe Book of Leviticus is at once the most legalistic of Old Testament books and the book which most clearly presents the grace of God in. Skip to content. About Us; Donate ...

Leviticus. Chapter 20 This is the Law and Order: SVU chapter, ... Chapter 27 If the author of Leviticus had an editor, the book would end with the terrifying thunderclap of Chapter 26.

Leviticus is a difficult book for a modern person to read with reverence and appreciation. Its main subject matter–animal offerings and ritual impurity–seems remote from contemporary concerns.

THE BOOK of Leviticus, Cardozo writes, “needed to respond to the circumstances of the hour for a people newly freed from slavery, adrift in a vast desert.

One of the major discoveries of modern biblical scholarship is the recent contribution by Mary Douglas (in her book “Leviticus as Literature” [Oxford University Press, 1999]) to project this ...

Arguing that the Book of Leviticus (Vayikra), dealing mainly with the laws of sacrifices in the Tabernacle, is likely the Torah’s “most ambiguous book,” Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo has made ...